Art
Balthus's Androgynous Dreams
When we talk about Balthus what we talk about are perversities: a grown man painting erotically charged portraits of Lolita-like young girls with their skirts flapped up like flowers.
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Join Hyperallergic Friday, December 6, for Evening Cocktails at Aqua Art Miami
On Friday, December 6, from 6 to 8 pm, we invite you to join us at Aqua Art Miami (1530 Collins Avenue, South Beach, FL) for evening cocktails and music.
Art
Memories of China: Yang Fudong's Nostalgic Disillusionment
BERKELEY, Calif. — Yang Fudong is known to chronicle contemporary China’s affluent and disaffected urban youth in atmospheric works that evoke Shanghai cinema of the 1930s golden age.
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Art Rx
Museums are great for holiday weekends, especially ones a little more off the beaten track than, say, the Met or MoMA. If that sounds too mainstream for you ... well, there are always North Korean propaganda films. Happy Thanksgiving!
Performance
Surrealism's Fistfights and Adversarial Culture
An evening Dada revue organized by Tristan Tzara, July 6, 1923's Soirée du Coeur à Barbe (Night of the Bearded Heart) was the site of an infamous altercation between Tzara's associates and Surrealist don André Breton at the Théâtre Michel in Paris.
Comics
How Artists Can Take Advantage of Holiday Spending
'Tis the season to … sell …
Art
Crows in the Dining Room and Other Messy Histories
In three of the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum, something is amiss.
Opinion
Literature and Publishing in Developing Contexts
I was recently sent an article about the potential of e-books in developing countries. It's one year old, but with the rise of e-books and the growing popularity of Kindles (including on airplanes taking off and landing), it seemed worth revisiting.
Performance
A Visual Concert of Gestures
Audience members for Tori Wrånes’s "Yes Nix" performance had to sidestep the artist, who was lying on the floor at the entrance to SIR Stage 37, as they walked in. Her feet were tied in rope, which was strung up to a running track in the ceiling. It was the most confrontational part of the 30-some-m
Opinion
Internet Crack: Your Instagram Memories on Marshmallows
Is it possible that some internet memories are so good that you can almost taste them? Well, Boomf — aka Magic Mallows — is banking on our need to consume memories in more ways than one.
Art
The Radical Boundaries of African-American Performance
“Be African-American. Be very African American.” Thus reads a typed instruction on an otherwise blank piece of paper sent by veteran performance artist William Pope.L to Clifford Owens as part of Anthology, the latter’s crowd-sourced performance project staged last year at MoMA PS1.
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The Feminist Politics of #Selfies
CHICAGO — The selfie is an aesthetic with radical potential for bringing visibility to people and bodies that are othered. This week we present to you a few instances of empowerment that we caught via the #feministselfie hashtag on Twitter, which began in response to a post on Jezebel that suggests